Greetings from our mission!

After a tender farewell to the Utah kids and a wonderful visit with the Texas kids, we finally actually DID make it to our mission! Elder and Sister Nelson met us at the Mission Home. President Porter and his family arrived later. After a tour of the mission office and the surrounding area and a delicious turkey soup supper with the Porters and Nelsons, we headed up north to what is affectionately called "Outer Angolia" because it the furthest spot from Cincinnati.

This is what we saw when we drove into Angola, Indiana Saturday night. We fell in love with it immediately. This is a picture of the round-about in the middle of town. Angloa is nestled in the northeastern corner of Indiana, just south of the Michigan border. It has more than 100 lakes with lots of woods and rolling hills. There are around 8,610 people in town with several villages surrounding it. 

We are sooooo lucky to be working with Elder Allred and Elder Phillips - clearly two of the best elders in the mission!! Here they are doing service in the public library in town. 

MTC

We entered the MTC on November 18th. What a wonderful experience! The spirit was so strong and we learned so much. There were 40 couples and four single sisters in our group - going here, there, and everywhere. The week went way too fast! Preach My Gospel is an amazing resource and we enjoyed getting familiar with it. Our teachers were amazing and we feel much more prepared. We truly "entered to learn" and are now excited to "go forth to serve".

This is Our Call!

Here is a picture when we got our call.

Welcome to our McMission blog!

Welcome to our McMission blog!

We have been called to serve an 18-month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Cincinnati Ohio Mission. This blog will be a place where we can share our experiences. It will allow us to share with our friends and family what we are doing and also it will serve as a public journal where we can store pictures and memories so we can view them later. We are excited to enter the MTC on November 18, 2013 and arrive in Ohio around the 27^th.

We hope you enjoy reading about our experiences and viewing our pictures as much as we do! We promise to update the blog frequently (we’ll consider it part of companionship study). With the help of our extremely talented and dynamic son, David, we will have no problem sharing our mission with you!